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After the extremely high water earlier in the week, the Manistee is back down at a fishable level with a heavy stain. Steelhead fishing has been great the past couple of days with a mix of older fish spawning and quite a few bright fish just showing up daily. This
The water levels have come down and the water temperatures have gone up. Steelhead fishing continues with a stain to the river, but good numbers of fish around. With more rain in the forecast, choose your days based on conditions and take advantage of a great run of spring fish.
The last time I was as close to physically confronting someone as I was yesterday was 35+ years ago when I still worked as a bouncer at a popular County Western bar in Ocala, Florida when I actually did, but then again, it was my job and I could get
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It’s April and it feels like I have been chasing my tail and burning the candle at both ends. However, it feels great and I am extremely thankful for being so busy on and off the river!!!! THANK YOU!!! It’s awesome to see so
After the recent rains our rivers have basically doubled in volume making fishing questionable in regards to safety and ideal fishing conditions. There has been an impressive number of fish in the systems so far this season which should continue once the water drops and clears.
Hey guys, just another quick one from me again. John has been pretty well on top of it lately and put one out on the 29th, but we have had some significant precipitation since then and extra caution should be exercised…
My “guess” would be that we’ll see these
(Carl with a massive 15 pound Muskegon River walleye)
Every early spring we normally catch some really nice walleye by mistake fishing steelhead during the spring steelhead run because walleye spawn just in front of the steelhead. But in over 30 years fishing the Muskegon river I’ve never seen one
The Manistee River below Tippy Dam is in great shape for spring. Now that the snow from the last apocalypse has almost left, we are still running a bit high at around 3000 and rising after the rain last night and today. As we mentioned in the last report, the
(Chris with a magnificent Muskegon River Steelhead)
Here’s my good friend Chris from Grand Rapids, MI with an absolute monster steelhead! Picture perfect naturally reproduced Muskegon River steelhead! Doesn’t get much better than this. Congrats Chris!
We had to pull up the anchor for this big
(Devin with a hard fighting male Steelhead)
With a 22-degree start this past Saturday morning the only way to heat up quickly is to catch an incredible Muskegon River steelhead at the break of dawn. And Catch it he did. Please meet my good friend Devin from Muskegon Michigan with
